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Playing Her Own Worst Enemy: 12 Questions for Mark Morris Dance Group’s Amber Star Merkens

Next week, the Mostly Mozart Festival revives Mark Morris’s acclaimed production of the Purcell opera Dido and Aeneas, which had its Brussels premiere in 1989. At the center of the work are Dido (the Queen of Carthage) and the Sorceress … Continue reading

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Year in Review: The Top 10 Dance Moments of 2011

This was only my second year watching dance, but it was a productive and deeply satisfying one: I’ve logged 112 performances (with three more scheduled) and have watched more than a few dance films. Here, in my last post of … Continue reading

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